One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.